Though Penn Badgley is grateful for his breakout position as Dan Humphrey, the outsider character seems to have represented a little bit of artwork imitating life.
The Gossip Lady alum lately mirrored on his starring position within the CW teen drama collection, which ran for six seasons from 2007 to 2012, and the way the position launched him “superficiality of this work” in Hollywood.
“What was that present aside from aesthetic? That was its factor, the best way all of us appeared,” he informed The Guardian. “I didn’t notably love the superficial superstar side of the best way I used to be perceived.”
Badgley defined, “There was only a interval the place, popping out of melancholy and isolation, I used to be leaping willfully into, but additionally being thrust into, this world the place the extra conventionally stunning I appeared, the extra profitable I could be, the extra worth I may need. There’s no technique to get previous the superficiality of this work, and should you recognise that, you’ll be able to’t assist however recognise the superficiality of our tradition, due to the best way it rewards this work.”
Struggling “physique dysmorphia” as a baby, Badgley felt like resembling the basic actors he admired “simply appeared like an impossibility.”
Primarily based on the books by Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Lady follows the privileged college students of a non-public faculty on Manhattan’s Higher East Facet, the lives of whom are documented on the ruthless titular blogger’s web site.
As Dan Humphrey, Badgley performed the Brooklyn outsider who discovered his manner into the elite clique by his romance with Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Energetic). Though each characters have been referenced within the 2021 Max revival, neither Badgley or Energetic reprised their roles.
